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Manta directory data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract SMB profiles, contact details, NAICS/SIC classifications, and operating hours from Manta. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

SMB profiles extracted
1.2M /day
Contact updates
345K /24h
Category mappings
89K /run
Active pipelines
84
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from manta.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Business Profiles objects from manta.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

manta_urlbusiness_nameabout_textyear_establishedclaimed_statuslogo_urlprimary_categoryverification_statuslast_updated
business_profiles
● 200 OK
"manta_url": "https://www.manta.com/c/mk2q3r1/apex-plumbing",
"business_name": "Apex Plumbing Services",
"year_established": 1998,
"claimed_status": true,
"primary_category": "Plumbing Contractors",
"verification_status": "Verified"
# manta_urlbusiness_nameabout_textyear_establishedclaimed_statuslogo_url
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Complete list of extractable fields for Firmographics objects from manta.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

manta_urlemployee_countrevenue_estimateownership_typenaics_codenaics_descriptionsic_codesic_descriptioncategory_path
firmographics
● 200 OK
"manta_url": "https://www.manta.com/c/mk2q3r1/apex-plumbing",
"employee_count": "10 to 19",
"revenue_estimate": "$1M to $2.5M",
"ownership_type": "Private",
"naics_code": "238220",
"sic_code": "1711"
# manta_urlemployee_countrevenue_estimateownership_typenaics_codenaics_description
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Complete list of extractable fields for Contact & Social objects from manta.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

manta_urlphone_primaryphone_altwebsite_urlemail_addressfacebook_urltwitter_urllinkedin_urlcontact_person_namecontact_person_title
contact_& social
● 200 OK
"manta_url": "https://www.manta.com/c/mk2q3r1/apex-plumbing",
"phone_primary": "(555) 234-5678",
"website_url": "http://www.apexplumbing.example.com",
"facebook_url": "https://facebook.com/apexplumbing",
"contact_person_name": "John Doe",
"contact_person_title": "Owner"
# manta_urlphone_primaryphone_altwebsite_urlemail_addressfacebook_url
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from manta.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idmanta_urlauthor_namestar_ratingreview_datereview_texthelpful_votesresponse_textresponse_date
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "rev_984123",
"manta_url": "https://www.manta.com/c/mk2q3r1/apex-plumbing",
"star_rating": 4.5,
"review_date": "2025-11-12",
"review_text": "Arrived on time and fixed the leak quickly.",
"author_name": "Sarah Jenkins"
# review_idmanta_urlauthor_namestar_ratingreview_datereview_text
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Complete list of extractable fields for Location & Operations objects from manta.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

manta_urlstreet_addresscitystatezip_codelatitudelongitudehours_mondayhours_sundaypayment_methods
location_& operations
● 200 OK
"manta_url": "https://www.manta.com/c/mk2q3r1/apex-plumbing",
"street_address": "123 Main St",
"city": "Austin",
"state": "TX",
"zip_code": "78701",
"latitude": 30.2672,
"longitude": -97.7431
# manta_urlstreet_addresscitystatezip_codelatitude
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Capabilities

Structured SMB intelligence from Manta

Our Manta scraper navigates complex directory taxonomies, handles pagination limits, and circumvents anti-bot measures to deliver normalised firmographic records.

Full Profile Extraction

Capture business name, description, year established, and claimed status directly from Manta company pages.

Firmographic Details

Extract employee count brackets, revenue estimates, ownership type, and exact NAICS/SIC classifications.

Contact Information

Scrape primary phone numbers, alternative contacts, external website links, and associated social media profiles.

Review Aggregation

Compile star ratings, review text, author details, and owner responses across business listings.

Location & Geo-data

Normalise street addresses, cities, states, and zip codes alongside operating hours and payment methods.

Category Traversal

Systematically crawl through Manta industry categories and sub-categories to build exhaustive regional lists.

Change Detection

Identify new business registrations, updated contact details, or newly claimed profiles without full re-crawls.

Bot Circumvention

Bypass Cloudflare and rate limits using residential proxy rotation and human-like request pacing.

Data Normalisation

Clean messy user-submitted data, standardise phone formats, and structure addresses into queryable fields.

// engagement pipeline

From category list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target states, cities, or industry categories. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and category traversal logic for manta.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, deduplication, and sample data review before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Manta pipeline handles directory challenges

Extracting data from broad business directories requires systematic traversal and strict normalisation. Here is how we maintain pipeline integrity.

pipeline-monitor · manta.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Taxonomy traversal
Systematic category and geo-crawling

Manta organizes millions of records through a nested hierarchy of locations and industries. We map this taxonomy completely, ensuring no sub-category or remote city is missed during the extraction phase.

Pagination limits
Bypassing hard display caps

Directory search results often cap at 1,000 visible records regardless of total matches. Our pipeline injects granular filters (by zip code or micro-category) to force result sets under the limit, ensuring 100% data capture.

Data normalisation
Cleaning user-submitted chaos

SMB directories contain highly variable data formatting. We apply strict regex and validation rules to normalise phone numbers, parse addresses into distinct components, and map proprietary categories to standard NAICS codes.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation

Aggressive crawling triggers IP bans and CAPTCHA walls. We route requests through US-based residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints to maintain high concurrency without interruption.

Deduplication
Merging duplicate SMB profiles

Businesses often have multiple unclaimed profiles on Manta. We use deterministic hashing on name and address fields to flag duplicates, delivering a clean, unique dataset to your warehouse.

Applications

Who uses Manta data — and how

Teams across industries use manta.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
B2B Lead Generation

Sales teams extract newly listed or claimed businesses in specific regions to build targeted outbound contact lists.

02
CRM Enrichment

Revenue operations teams cross-reference existing CRM accounts with Manta firmographics to fill missing revenue or employee data.

03
Local SEO Auditing

Marketing agencies monitor citation consistency (Name, Address, Phone) across Manta and other directories for their clients.

04
Market Research

Analysts aggregate NAICS codes and geographic density to identify growing industry hubs and regional market saturation.

05
Competitor Analysis

Franchises track competitor locations, operating hours, and review sentiment across specific metropolitan areas.

06
Alternative Data for Investment

Private equity firms monitor SMB growth signals, category expansion, and regional business formation trends.

Why DataFlirt

"Manta houses millions of fragmented SMB records across thousands of local categories. Extracting this requires systematic directory traversal, not just simple URL lists."

Scraping business directories introduces unique challenges: infinite pagination loops, aggressive rate limiting, and highly variable DOM structures. DataFlirt manages the proxy rotation and schema normalisation so you receive clean, deduplicated firmographic data ready for your CRM or data warehouse.

Technical Spec

Manta scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our manta.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Playwright sessions for dynamic contact reveals and interactive maps
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration for bot challenges
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
US-based residential IPs to match target demographic and avoid blocks
Supported
Category tree mapping
Automated traversal of all Manta industry and geographic taxonomies
Supported
Address normalisation
Parsing raw strings into discrete street, city, state, and zip fields
Supported
Review extraction
Capture all paginated reviews, ratings, and owner responses
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diff logic to emit only updated or new business profiles
Supported
Premium Manta Ads metrics
Click-through rates and impression data for paid Manta listings
Partial
User account private dashboards
Internal analytics requiring authenticated business owner login
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Manta pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusBeautifulSoup
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles broad directory crawling and deduplication. Playwright executes JavaScript required for obfuscated contact details and dynamic UI elements.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain US-specific residential ISP proxy pools. Rotation happens per-request to bypass rate limits while maintaining high throughput across millions of pages.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and Kubernetes. Airflow handles complex category traversal dependencies and SLA alerting, with state managed in PostgreSQL.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested arrays
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel format for business teams
Parquet
Columnar format for data warehouses
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record
API
Queryable REST endpoints
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About manta.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Manta legal?

Scraping publicly available firmographic information from Manta is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated business profiles, contact details, and reviews. We do not extract private user data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review Manta's ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you extract data when search results are capped?

Manta limits visible search results for broad queries. We bypass this by injecting granular parameters — combining micro-categories with specific zip codes — to force the result sets below the display cap, ensuring complete extraction.

Can you normalise the messy address and phone data?

Yes. User-submitted directory data is notoriously inconsistent. Our pipeline applies post-processing regex and validation rules to standardise phone formats and split raw address strings into discrete street, city, state, and zip fields.

How fresh is the data?

For targeted regional or category lists, we can configure daily or weekly refresh pipelines. Full directory sweeps spanning millions of records are typically executed on a monthly or quarterly cadence depending on your requirements.

Do you extract NAICS and SIC codes?

Yes. Where Manta displays industry classifications, we extract both the numerical codes and the associated textual descriptions, mapping them cleanly to your database schema.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at defined category or state-level extracts (typically 50,000-100,000 records). For nationwide directory sweeps, we price based on compute volume and delivery frequency. Contact us for a scoped quote.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 1,000 business profiles as part of the pre-engagement scoping process — so you can validate schema fit, field completeness, and data quality before signing any contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=manta.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off export of regional contractors or a continuous feed of newly registered SMBs — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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